Write on!

This story is possibly going to turn into a novel. So far it's 160 pages typed up and I still have so much more to add to it. The very idea of this makes my stomach flip with excitement. This is the longest story I've written and to me that is a huge accomplishment. Even if it never gets published, even if people don't like it, all that matters that I wrote that much. To me, writing stories is my life but sometimes I get antsy and want to get to the end as fast as possible. So I cut it short or skip some details just so that I can say it's done. But not with this one. With this one all I want to do is make it longer. All I want to do is make it a novel.

In other news, I've gotten a lot of great feedback for Fall Into Me on my writing site (at writing.com) and it's made me feel great. They tell me I'm a good writer and that it deserves to be published. Even though I've never met these people, their words mean the world to me. Their words make me realize that my writing is important and that I should keep doing it. I will keep doing it an one day it will be available in bookstores.

Ready to go.

So it's done. I've finished the story and I couldn't be happier with it. And now I want everyone to read it. I've given it to a couple of my friends and now I'm just waiting on feedback. I joined a blog for writers that has tons of information such as agents looking for clients and publishers looking to publish. So here I am, ready to take the next step. I'm going to enter a couple of writing contests, get my name out there and then start sending this story out to agencies to see if anyone bites. It's my first time, so I'm not expecting a lot. I know I'll be rejected but I'll pick myself up, dust off my knees, and try again. I want people to see what I can do and to help me be better. I want to make my writing a career and I'm ready to start.

Other than that, I've been reading a lot this summer. I've finished five books and I'm itching to pick up the next one and keep going. I've been reading a lot of fairy tale inspired books and it's insipring me to write my own. We'll see, maybe that'll be my next project. One step at a time though, even though the ideas never stop flowing through my mind. Not that I'm complaining.